What a Minister ought to do upon his Arrival in a Foreign Court (1738) [ Practices ]
… as is possible, a private Audience of the Prince, and enlarge chiefly on the Desire which his Master has to cultivate a Friendship and good Correspondence with him, and to be united to him by stricter Ties and Engagements than in Times past; and this he ought to accompany with Declarations of the Esteem and Friendship which his Master has for the Prince, or State, to which he is sent, and of the Desire which he himself has to … have resided a long time in the same Court, and with whom it is useful for him, and oftentimes necessary, to contract a Friendship and Familiarity to a certain Degree. Seeing there is no Prince but who has some Confident or other to whom he …
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